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title: At their head Rode Fergus, Uladh’s King ere traitor yet Had filched… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At their head Rode Fergus, Uladh’s King ere traitor yet Had filched its royal crown; and by his side, Faithful in exile, Cormac Conlinglas, King Conor’s bravest son. Who acts: traitor. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, par
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 61

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At their head Rode Fergus, Uladh’s King ere traitor yet Had filched its royal crown; and by his side, Faithful in exile, Cormac Conlinglas, King Conor’s bravest son.

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**Who acts:** traitor · **What happens:** filch, crown · **To what, where:** ere traitor, head Rode

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traitor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:11:63
# text = At their head Rode Fergus, Uladh’s King ere traitor yet Had filched its royal crown; and by his side, Faithful in exile, Cormac Conlinglas, King Conor’s bravest son.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rode	Rode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	filched	filch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Cormac	Cormac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
29	Conlinglas	Conlinglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
32	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
34	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **filch** | past · perfect · passive |  | ere traitor |  | head Rode | yet | Cormac and King's bravest son *obl*; traitor's royal crown *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **crown** |  | traitor |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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